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Definition of sky in English: skynounPlural skies skʌɪskaɪ often the sky1The region of the atmosphere and outer space seen from the earth. hundreds of stars were shining in the sky mass noun Dorcas had never seen so much sky Example sentencesExamples - The midnight blue of the nighttime sky grew suddenly darker.
- Then dozens of multi-coloured balloons were released into the sunny evening sky.
- I was outside, under the most brilliant azure sky that I had ever witnessed.
- They both lay there, looking at the early morning sky through the window of the tour bus.
- Today her dress was the pure color of a summer sky on a clear day.
- She crossed her arms under her head and leaned back then, watching the sky darken slowly.
- Now, the sun floated high above them in a clear, cloudless blue sky.
- His cold gaze focused on the starless sky outside the small stone window.
- Ereana thought about this as stars began to dot the darkening sky.
- The air was polluted with cloudy gray skies.
- He opened his eyes and scanned the cloudy skies.
- You can see the pyramid, you can see the dark, gray skies.
- Flat, gray clouds filled the darkening sky above her as the town prepared for yet another rainfall.
- The moon shown as brightly as white silk in the midnight sky above his head.
- I stare out at the inky black, star-studded midnight sky sometime after I'd left Mother.
- Ajit woke up sweating and looked out of his window into the starless, black midnight sky.
- What was once an empty backdrop of a starry sky was filled with a bright, silvery object.
- The very end of the symphony is like a radiant summer sky at sunset.
- Asteroids of that size, however, are exceedingly difficult to observe in the twilight sky with ground-based telescopes.
- Max just rolled his eyes and stared back up at the starlit sky.
Synonyms the atmosphere, the stratosphere, the skies, airspace literary the heavens, the firmament, the vault of heaven, the blue, the (wide) blue yonder, the welkin, the ether, the empyrean, the azure, the upper regions, the sphere - 1.1literary Heaven; heavenly power.
the just vengeance of incensed skies
verbskies, skied, skying skʌɪskaɪ [with object]informal 1Hit (a ball) high into the air. Example sentencesExamples - He skied the ball so high that it probably cleared the stand, never mind the cross bar.
- She skied two runs on the Thursday night before the race and said it was fine.
- After a long delay while Prokas was treated, Murray stepped up to sky the spot-kick over the bar.
- Mallan's 34 th-minute spot-kick was saved by Butter and the striker skied the rebound.
- They saw that against Tampa Bay, when Rouen skied a punt to the 4-yard line and Bannister caught it before it hit the ground.
- Allen's swift 35 allowed McMahon to sky the final run and leave the Oxford side relieved after seeing the game almost slip away.
- The ball looped kindly over my head after Hopkins skied her attempt at reaching one of Mauresmo's serves.
- Dennis Hill then skied a one-on-one, which he lived to regret as Colne enjoyed more possession and earned four corners in quick succession.
- The visiting attack were bankrupt of ideas and resorted to skying balls in form distance.
- Somehow he managed to get underneath the ball and skied it.
- Hooper himself was the victim of the worst fielding error of the match when Cullinan skied the ball towards deep mid-wicket.
- 1.1 Hang (a picture) very high on a wall, especially in an exhibition.
a painter's worst fear was that his picture would be skied
Phrases informal There is practically no limit (to something such as a price that can be charged or the opportunities afforded to someone) we can do anything—the sky's the limit Example sentencesExamples - Once an individual has this frame of mind the sky is the limit for opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.
- Really, for the tobacco firms, the sky is the limit.
- In the clubby confines of America's boardrooms, the sky is the limit.
- On the other hand, this does not mean that the sky is the limit as far as prices are concerned.
- ‘I thought Bulgaria is a country that is getting its wheels off the ground and the sky is the limit,’ he said.
- If these guys are this good at 18, and they stay together for longer than five minutes, then - to spout another cliché - the sky is the limit!
- Put him in a real racing car with proper infrastructure and the sky is the limit.
- At only 41 years old, I think the sky is the limit for Pawlenty.
- When it comes to pick-up games the sky is the limit.
- As far as bond prices are concerned the sky is the limit.
Very highly; enthusiastically. he wrote to his sister praising Lizzie to the skies Example sentencesExamples - Ishan has spent the good part of half an hour praising Matt to the skies.
- Both films were praised to the skies; and indeed, they are very accomplished.
- This, after all, is the man who can praise public service workers to the skies and then, almost in the next breath, dismiss them as wreckers.
- She hated them at times, and once she had praised their names to the skies for letting her live again.
- We're going to write lots of articles praising him to the skies.
- From the beginning Brookmyre seems to have been praised to the skies.
- This commission will be praised to the skies in the Human Rights Commission and laughed at in the families of New Zealand.
- NATO as we know it is dead, and we have no idea what will follow - so we praise it to the skies.
- Everybody was praising young Michael to the skies, even though he missed a hat-trick in the first half!
- Of course, it helped that the older man spent most of his time praising Ryan to the skies.
Synonyms effusively, profusely, very highly, very enthusiastically, unreservedly, without reserve, ardently, fervently
an ancient Greek theatre under the open sky Example sentencesExamples - The knight felt free under the open sky, and let out a whoop of joy as he rode over the grassy, frost-glazed hill.
- Should the weather have been warmer, we would have delighted in sleeping under the open sky lulled to sleep by the voice of nature.
- They had been there three days already, saving the inflated price of the hostels by sleeping out under the open sky on a concrete beach.
- It was tiresome, traveling under the open sky, and she was looking forward to a good night's rest.
- Hawaii Big Island hosts open market places with hundreds of merchants selling their hand crafted items under the open sky.
- "Truly it has been a joy to be outside under the open sky today," the bard said as their party rode out of the Lord Johen's forests.
- That's why they are living outside under the open sky.
- Promptly after sunset, the pilgrims travel through the mountain pass of Muzdalifa, where they spend the night under the open sky.
- Citizens gather under the open sky on a Sunday in spring to pass laws and elect officials by a show of hands.
- People strolled through, into the cool courtyard under the open sky.
Derivatives adjective ˈskʌɪiˈskaɪi Relating to or resembling the sky. the skyey regions grew dark Example sentencesExamples - the skyey void
- It's everything he is not, except for the skyey messenger from outer space visiting our low earth, which might fit.
- The arc of pop continues up and out, happily free and unconstrained as it tracks into the skyey void.
- Black enrollment at the historically university ties has climbed skyey to nearly 10.4 percent this year, just short of the 10.6 percent target.
adjective What if I leave the skyless pit I was born into? Example sentencesExamples - Derek Jarman opens his claustrophobic, skyless Caravaggio with the feverish artist on his shadowy deathbed.
- At the very end of his long effort measured by skyless space and time without depth, the purpose is achieved.
Origin Middle English (also in the plural denoting clouds), from Old Norse ský 'cloud'. The verb dates from the early 19th century. loft from Old English: In Old English loft meant ‘air, sky’ as well as what was up in the air, an upper room. It comes from Old Norse, and shares a Germanic root with lift (Old English). Sky (Middle English) was also a borrowing from Scandinavian and originally meant ‘cloud’. The word was applied to a shade of blue in the mid 17th century; the phrase out of a clear blue sky, for something as unexpected as rain or thunder out of such a sky, made its appearance towards the end of the 19th century; the sky's the limit dates from the 1920s. When Anglo-Saxons wanted to talk about the sky they could also use the word wolcen, welkin in modern English, but now only used in the expression to make the welkin ring.
Rhymes ally, Altai, apply, assai, awry, ay, aye, Baha'i, belie, bi, Bligh, buy, by, bye, bye-bye, chi, Chiangmai, Ciskei, comply, cry, Cy, Dai, defy, deny, Di, die, do-or-die, dry, Dubai, dye, espy, eye, fie, fly, forbye, fry, Frye, goodbye (US goodby), guy, hereby, hi, hie, high, I, imply, I-spy, July, kai, lie, lye, Mackay, misapply, my, nearby, nigh, Nye, outfly, passer-by, phi, pi, pie, ply, pry, psi, Qinghai, rai, rely, rocaille, rye, scry, serai, shanghai, shy, sigh, Skye, sky-high, sly, spin-dry, spry, spy, sty, Sukhotai, supply, Tai, Thai, thereby, thigh, thy, tie, Transkei, try, tumble-dry, underlie, Versailles, Vi, vie, whereby, why, wry, Wye, xi, Xingtai, Yantai Definition of sky in US English: skynounskīskaɪ often the sky1The region of the atmosphere and outer space seen from the earth. hundreds of stars shining in the sky Jillson had never seen so much sky Example sentencesExamples - The moon shown as brightly as white silk in the midnight sky above his head.
- They both lay there, looking at the early morning sky through the window of the tour bus.
- Today her dress was the pure color of a summer sky on a clear day.
- Ajit woke up sweating and looked out of his window into the starless, black midnight sky.
- I was outside, under the most brilliant azure sky that I had ever witnessed.
- Now, the sun floated high above them in a clear, cloudless blue sky.
- Ereana thought about this as stars began to dot the darkening sky.
- Flat, gray clouds filled the darkening sky above her as the town prepared for yet another rainfall.
- Then dozens of multi-coloured balloons were released into the sunny evening sky.
- Asteroids of that size, however, are exceedingly difficult to observe in the twilight sky with ground-based telescopes.
- The midnight blue of the nighttime sky grew suddenly darker.
- His cold gaze focused on the starless sky outside the small stone window.
- You can see the pyramid, you can see the dark, gray skies.
- He opened his eyes and scanned the cloudy skies.
- The very end of the symphony is like a radiant summer sky at sunset.
- The air was polluted with cloudy gray skies.
- She crossed her arms under her head and leaned back then, watching the sky darken slowly.
- Max just rolled his eyes and stared back up at the starlit sky.
- What was once an empty backdrop of a starry sky was filled with a bright, silvery object.
- I stare out at the inky black, star-studded midnight sky sometime after I'd left Mother.
Synonyms the atmosphere, the stratosphere, the skies, airspace - 1.1literary Heaven; heavenly power.
the just vengeance of incensed skies
verbskīskaɪ [with object]informal 1Hit (a ball) high into the air. Example sentencesExamples - Allen's swift 35 allowed McMahon to sky the final run and leave the Oxford side relieved after seeing the game almost slip away.
- Dennis Hill then skied a one-on-one, which he lived to regret as Colne enjoyed more possession and earned four corners in quick succession.
- They saw that against Tampa Bay, when Rouen skied a punt to the 4-yard line and Bannister caught it before it hit the ground.
- Somehow he managed to get underneath the ball and skied it.
- After a long delay while Prokas was treated, Murray stepped up to sky the spot-kick over the bar.
- Mallan's 34 th-minute spot-kick was saved by Butter and the striker skied the rebound.
- Hooper himself was the victim of the worst fielding error of the match when Cullinan skied the ball towards deep mid-wicket.
- The ball looped kindly over my head after Hopkins skied her attempt at reaching one of Mauresmo's serves.
- The visiting attack were bankrupt of ideas and resorted to skying balls in form distance.
- She skied two runs on the Thursday night before the race and said it was fine.
- He skied the ball so high that it probably cleared the stand, never mind the cross bar.
- 1.1 Hang (a picture) very high on a wall, especially in an exhibition.
Phrases Very highly; enthusiastically. he wrote to his sister praising Lizzie to the skies Example sentencesExamples - Everybody was praising young Michael to the skies, even though he missed a hat-trick in the first half!
- NATO as we know it is dead, and we have no idea what will follow - so we praise it to the skies.
- We're going to write lots of articles praising him to the skies.
- This commission will be praised to the skies in the Human Rights Commission and laughed at in the families of New Zealand.
- She hated them at times, and once she had praised their names to the skies for letting her live again.
- Ishan has spent the good part of half an hour praising Matt to the skies.
- From the beginning Brookmyre seems to have been praised to the skies.
- Of course, it helped that the older man spent most of his time praising Ryan to the skies.
- This, after all, is the man who can praise public service workers to the skies and then, almost in the next breath, dismiss them as wreckers.
- Both films were praised to the skies; and indeed, they are very accomplished.
Synonyms effusively, profusely, very highly, very enthusiastically, unreservedly, without reserve, ardently, fervently
informal There is practically no limit (to something such as a price that can be charged or the opportunities afforded to someone). Example sentencesExamples - As far as bond prices are concerned the sky is the limit.
- At only 41 years old, I think the sky is the limit for Pawlenty.
- Once an individual has this frame of mind the sky is the limit for opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.
- On the other hand, this does not mean that the sky is the limit as far as prices are concerned.
- In the clubby confines of America's boardrooms, the sky is the limit.
- When it comes to pick-up games the sky is the limit.
- Really, for the tobacco firms, the sky is the limit.
- Put him in a real racing car with proper infrastructure and the sky is the limit.
- ‘I thought Bulgaria is a country that is getting its wheels off the ground and the sky is the limit,’ he said.
- If these guys are this good at 18, and they stay together for longer than five minutes, then - to spout another cliché - the sky is the limit!
Origin Middle English (also in the plural denoting clouds), from Old Norse ský ‘cloud’. The verb dates from the early 19th century. |